Steven Clive Goldsmith (born 19 December 1964) is an English former professional

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er who played

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for

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

and

Derbyshire County Cricket Club Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Derbyshire. Its limited overs team is called the Derbyshire Falco ...

s between 1986 and 1992 before moving to play for

Norfolk County Cricket Club Norfolk County Cricket Club is one of twenty National County Cricket Clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Norfolk. The club is a member of the National Counties Championship ...

in 1993. He was born at

Ashford, Kent Ashford is a town in the Borough of Ashford, Ashford district, in the county of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Great Stour at the southern or Escarpment, scarp edge of the North Downs, about by road southeast of centr ...

in 1964 and educated at

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.Steve Goldsmith

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First-class cricket

Goldsmith played as a batting all-rounder who bowled right-arm medium-pace deliveries as a "serviceable sixth bowler" in one-day cricket.Reed M (2005
Brief profile of Steve Goldsmith
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-10-11. He first appeared for Kent's Second XI in 1982 and made his senior debut in the 1986 John Player Special League. Aged 22, he made his first-class debut for Kent the following September, after playing what ''

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'' described as "some stunningly confident shots" in a one-day match during August.Lee A (1987) Patchwork team jolts dreamers, ''

'', 31 August 1987, p. 27.
Available online
at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2022-07-04. The paper went on to say that "a great deal more will be heard of him", but he was released by the county at the end of the season after only five senior appearances.
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-10-11. A move to Derbyshire for the start of the 1988 season saw Goldsmith play more regularly and he scored 1,071 runs in his first season with the county. He was a regular member of the team, particularly in one-day cricket and was part of the side which reached the final of the 1988 Benson & Hedges Cup, taking "a wonderful catch" on the boundary in the match. Injuries during 1989 and 1990 restricted his appearances, although he was a member of the Derbyshire team which won the 1990 Sunday League, hitting the winning runs in the match which clinched the trophy. The following season, Goldsmith was the only Derbyshire bowler to hit the stumps in the sides loss to

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in a

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in the

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Move to Norfolk

Goldsmith made two centuries in his 75 first-class matches, but suffered an injury in 1992, a cut which effectively ended his top-level career. He heard the news of his release by Derbyshire on local radio before having been informed by the county, which later apologised publicly. He moved to play for Norfolk, playing in 90

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matches for the county between 1993 and 2003, as well as appearing in the Minor Counties Trophy and 15 List A matches.Lyles C (2003
Minor Counties: Goldsmith's last hurrah
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'', 3 August 2003. Retrieved 2017-10-12. He took a

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in the 1997 Minor Counties Trophy final as Norfolk beat

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. and scored ten Minor Counties Championship centuries for the side, including a score of 200

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in 1993, an innings in which he batted with Roger Finney to set a new record third-wicket partnership of 290 runs. Consistently one of Norfolk's leading run scorers throughout his time in the side, Goldsmith scored 6,063 Minor Counties Championship runs and took 181 wickets. As well as his ten centuries, he made 39 half-centuries in his 11 seasons, and scored 157 in a Norfolk record fourth-wicket partnership of 195 with

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in 1997. At the time he retired he was the ninth leading Championship run scorer in Norfolk history and one of only eight men to have scored a double century for the side, whilst his 917 Championship runs in 1993 are the fourth highest for the county. He played six times for the Minor Counties representative side in the

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in 1995 and 1998. Goldsmith set up a cricket coaching company in Norfolk and continues to coach in the county, being involved with the Norfolk county team as well as with a variety of other local sides. England international cricketer Olly Stone, who was a Norfolk age-group player, credits Goldsmith with identifying his talent and encouraging him to pursue the sport at a higher level.Bolton P (2021
England star Stone never forgets his Norfolk roots
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'', 1 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-04. Goldsmith played for and coached at Vauxhall Mallards in

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and was a games coach at Taverham Hall School near

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

.Goldsmith is relishing his return to the big occasion
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'', 12 August 2011. Retrieved 2017-10-12.Meet our Prep staff
Taverham Hall School. Retrieved 2017-10-12.Wise C (198
Stow and Diss seal promotion to top flight of Norfolk Alliance
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'', 28 August 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-12.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldsmith, Steve 1964 births English cricketers Living people Derbyshire cricketers Kent cricketers Norfolk cricketers People educated at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys Minor Counties cricketers Cricketers from Ashford, Kent 20th-century English sportsmen